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The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) was founded by undergraduates at Bard College in 1999 after a ban on public funding decimated the field of college in prison in the United States. BPI started with 16 students in one prison in 2001 and is now in seven prisons in New York State; 5 men’s prisons and 2 women’s prisons. BPI enrolls over 300 students in associate and bachelors degrees and organizes a host of extracurricular activities. Since 2001, BPI has issued more than 50,000 credits and over 600 degrees; it offers more than 160 courses per academic year. BPI is also the home of a national Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison that cultivates, supports, and establishes college-in-prison programs in partnership with colleges and universities across the US and now globally, along with the BPI Summer Residency for emerging practitioners.

Bio

Jessica Neptune is Director of National Engagement for the Bard Prison Initiative and leads BPI’s Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison at Bard College and BPI’s Summer Residency program. She is the founder of BPI’s Women’s College Partnership at the Indiana Women’s Prison. Prior to her return to BPI, an organization she helped start as an undergraduate, she worked on criminal justice reform with the Obama Administration’s Federal Interagency Reentry Council. She holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Chicago. Her scholarship is on 20th century US policies and politics of punishment.

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